El Oued University organizes a scientific symposium on arthroscopic and educational approaches for cochlear implants

Within the framework of commemorating the World Cochlear Implant Day, which falls on February 25, today the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Echahid Hamma Lakhdar, Dr. Ammar Gharaisa, supervised the opening of the scientific symposium: Orthodontic and educational approaches for cochlear implants.

With the participation of the Amal Association for the Hard of Hearing and Cochlear Implants in El Oued, the Head of the Department of Psychology and Education, Professor Jalloul Ahmed, the President of the Amal Association, Mr. Kroush Abdel Nasser, the symposium chair, Dr. Al-Bachir Jari, Dr.Mansouri Mohammad Al-Taher, Dr. Bayzat Al-Amria from the University of Algiers 2, and Dr. Tarik Salehi from the University of Ouargla. The head of the Sada Al-Amal Association for Cochlear Implants in Ghardaia, Professor Makali Abdelsalam, a member of the Al-Amal Association in El Oued, and a group of professors Gharbi Abdel Nasser, Jalab Mohammad Al-Saleh, and Saleh Khashkhush, the director of the Psychological Assistance Center, Ms. Ghorab Rahma, Professor Kaddour Abdel Salam, and a number of students.

The Dean of the faculty  opened his speech by welcoming and thanking all attendees, and praised the department’s activity, thanking all the contributors to this symposium, from associations and professors inside and outside the wilaya, with the aim of achieving assistance for the hearing impaired, and the ability to achieve integration for this group. The Dean referred to striving for the Orthophonia specialty to be one of the specialties  of our university in the future. For his part, the President of the Amal Association in El Oued  presented the concept, establishment and objectives of the association. He also pointed out several points, the most important of which is preparing training courses for the benefit of specialists, arthropodists, psychologists, teachers of children with hearing disabilities. Many interventions were provided by the professors, opening the way for scientific interventions and discussions, where the students interacted. The symposium includes a set of relevant questions.

The symposium aims to raise awareness of the importance of caring for children with cochlear implants and to train students of the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences in order to follow up on children with cochlear implants and understand ways to adapt their education.